The Washington elite believe that the British people should serve Washington’s interest and not their own. To this end, President Obama has been sent to London to emphasize that the UK must remain in the EU.
Does this make you wonder why it is important to Washington for the British people to surrender their national sovereignty to the European Union? If not, it should.
It is easier and less expensive for Washington to control the EU government than to control 28 separate governments. For example, if Washington wants to open up Europe to Monsanto, it is easier for Washington to bribe one EU government than to deal with 28 governments, especially as the European Commission is not accountable to the European people, whereas the individual populations of the countries would make their objections known to the national governments. The EU can open the door to Monsanto without accountability.
If you think the US government has too much integrity and righteousness to force the EU to serve Europeans and not Monsanto, read this: GMOs Produced through “Gene-editing”: European Commission Fails to Regulate New GMOs after Intense US Lobbying.
Then there is the NATO consideration. NATO is cover for Washington’s war crimes. Without this cover, there likely would be arrest warrants for US officials and, if not, certainly much hostile publicity. The notion that Washington is bringing “freedom and democracy” when it destroys a country would no longer fly.
If the UK leaves the EU, other countries are likely to follow. The desertion could spread to NATO, in which case Washington’s hegemony over Europe and ability to threaten and destabilize Russia disappear. The neoconservatives cannot stand the thought.
Just as have the Americans and Europeans, the British have been lied to, deceived, and brainwashed for so long that it is surprising that such a large part of the population and political element are in favor of the UK leaving the EU. It shows that despite the propaganda, many of the British recognize that being absorbed by the EU is the same as being conquered by the Germans, a fate that the British fought two world wars to avoid.
The paid off British politicians want to do Washington’s bidding. Perhaps more need to be paid off, and the price is what Obama has gone to London to discover.
Here is a RT report on the hostile reception Obama received in the UK for his meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.
Copyright © 2016 Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
Whilst I think Mr Roberts may be correct, or maybe up to a point, I think he forgets that, equally, the USA might want Britain to actually leave the EU, or at least threaten to do so, because the EU is no longer serving US interests and it wants to force it to undertake reforms that will better serve US interests and the fear of a British (and possibly Dutch) withdrawal is a way of achieving this. It may even want it break up in its current form if it believes Germany and France are becoming too independent. There could also be the reasoning that Britain, unable able to successfully influence EU policy, its usefulness as a US client state is better served outside the EU. Likewise, the British government themselves might want to leave the EU because they want to be closer to the United States on certain issues (such as not having to comply with human rights law) or want to continue with a neoliberal agenda that is fast becoming unpopular with the rest of Europe.